DIVORCE WITHOUT LAWYERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 11

DIVORCE WITHOUT LAWYERS.

In Burmah, though divorce is lnmcntably common, it is managed without tlio publicity and scandal which aro inevitnblo where such matters nro settled in the Law Courts and reported In tho preea. If divorce is ft neeessnry evil (writes a contemporary), it Is pity thnt it cannot everywhere be na nulotly managed as in Burmali. There, if a husband and wife decide that life together ia an impossibility, she goes out and buya two llltlo candles of oqunl size, mndo spedally for the use of the unhappily weddad. Sho brings the candles liomo, nnd lhon she nnd her husband sit down upon tho floor, placing the candles between thorn. The oandles are lighted at tho snrno moment, and one represents tho husbnnd,. and the other the wife. The pair wntoh Ihe burning tnper nnxlousty, for custom decrees thnfc the owner ' of the one which first goes out is to at onco loavo the house. The second candle may have only flicked out a moment later, but its poAftessor lemains the owner of the house and all lIA contents, his or her lnte ■ partner going awny with nothing but' the clothes worn at tho moment. ' '

The Grcbk Church employs two rings in lim innrrinßo oordmony, ono of gold fl ilho other of flllvor.. '